Andrei Codrescu Quotes

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.

Andrei Codrescu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1946

Topics

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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jesse Jackson

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Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

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As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

Maz Jobrani

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I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

Melanie Scrofano

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There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

John Lanchester

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It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

Michael Fassbender

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Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

John Wanamaker

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The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Ron Howard

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People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Miriam Margolyes

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I find that people want aggressive policing if they as a community feel they are part of it. They don't want aggressive policing if they feel it's being imposed upon them and they are a target.

Loretta Lynch

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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Josiah Strong

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